I agree. Thanks for your hard work that served as the basis of what many take for granted. Please know that many still appreciate all that you have given us.
I have read this document and it explicitly states in the summary: "The payoff in terms of survivability for a distributed configuration in the cases of enemy attacks directed against nodes, links, or combinations of nodes and links is demonstrated." Now, I understand that there is no mention in this section that mentions nuclear war, but in 1964, what other major attack threat existed?
This is an interesting concept...What about redundancy for integrity? Not to play the Devil's advocate here, but assume that you are running Linux on an S/390, and doing the work of 400 Sun server (figure courtesy of abcnews.com), and there is one HUGE power spike and the S/390 goes down. Goodbye enterprise because that was your ONLY system. Sure, you can run 41,000 copies of Linux on one, but it's still only one machine. In short, there are advantages (one system provides simplicity for maintenance) and disadvantages (as stated above) associated with the return of the mainframe computer. As for the idea of IBM phasing all of their OS's out in favor of Linux--good luck. With some of the bank tellers I've dealt with, I'll be pleasantly surprised if they would even be able to handle the idea of Linux in their place of business. That's all I have to say about that.
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I agree. Thanks for your hard work that served as the basis of what many take for granted. Please know that many still appreciate all that you have given us.
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I have read this document and it explicitly states in the summary: "The payoff in terms of survivability for a distributed configuration in the cases of enemy attacks directed against nodes, links, or combinations of nodes and links is demonstrated." Now, I understand that there is no mention in this section that mentions nuclear war, but in 1964, what other major attack threat existed?
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This is an interesting concept...What about redundancy for integrity? Not to play the Devil's advocate here, but assume that you are running Linux on an S/390, and doing the work of 400 Sun server (figure courtesy of abcnews.com), and there is one HUGE power spike and the S/390 goes down. Goodbye enterprise because that was your ONLY system. Sure, you can run 41,000 copies of Linux on one, but it's still only one machine. In short, there are advantages (one system provides simplicity for maintenance) and disadvantages (as stated above) associated with the return of the mainframe computer. As for the idea of IBM phasing all of their OS's out in favor of Linux--good luck. With some of the bank tellers I've dealt with, I'll be pleasantly surprised if they would even be able to handle the idea of Linux in their place of business. That's all I have to say about that.
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